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Barcelona President Josep María Bartomeu on Thursday addressed "the one-year transfer ban which FIFA has dealt the Catalan club for violating rules regarding the transfer of minors," according to Santi Giménez of AS. After reading out a "timeline of all of the correspondence from FIFA, Bartomeu revealed that Barcelona only received the final notice" from FIFA on Tuesday, when the decision had been "made by the Disciplinary Committee" on Nov. 28. Bartomeu also defended the club's La Masia youth academy.